2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Netherlands Nationals

[e][h]2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Netherlands Nationals

League Information

Series:

World Championship Series

Organizer(s):

Electronic Sports League
Blizzard Entertainment

Game Version:

Wings of Liberty
Patch 1.4.3

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Cologne

Format:

1v1
Double-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$2,000 USD

Date:

2012-05-13

Liquipedia Tier:

Minor

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

8

4

2

2

Maps

WCS Cloud Kingdom LE • WCS Daybreak LE • WCS Ohana LE • WCS Antiga Shipyard • WCS Entombed Valley • WCS Shakuras Plateau • WCS Tal'Darim Altar LE

The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Netherlands Nationals is a StarCraft II tournament hosted by Blizzard for 8 players from the Netherlands. It is held in Cologne, Germany on May 13, 2012, and features a prize pool of $2,000. The top 2 players receive paid trips to the 2012 WCS Europe Finals.

Format

• Double-elimination
• All rounds best-of-three.
• In the Grand Finals, the player coming from the Lower Bracket has to win two best-of-three series.

Map Pool

Cloud Kingdom	Daybreak	Ohana	Antiga Shipyard	Entombed Valley	Shakuras Plateau	Tal'Darim Altar

Talents

• Host
  • Soe (Salome Soe Gschwind-Penski)

• Commentators
  • Kaelaris (James Carrol)
  • Templar (Konrad Kleinholz)

Prize Pool

$2,000, and two paid trips to the 2012 WCS Europe Finals is spread among the players as seen below.

Place	$USD	Seed	Player	Team
1st	$800	Paid Trip	Grubby	Team Grubby
2nd	$500	Paid Trip	Ret	Team Liquid
3rd	$240	-	uThermal	Team Defence
4th	-	-	Harstem	Mouse Control
5th-6th	-	-	RainMan	ZZZZZ
			PoYo	LowLandLions
7th-8th	-	-	NOLot	ZZZZZ
			WiseEye	ZZZZZ

Qualifiers

Click [show] on the right to view detailed qualifiers information
League	Date	Qualified Player #1	Qualified Player #2
ESL Qualifier #1	2012-04-24	Grubby	PoYo
ESL Qualifier #2	2012-04-26	Ret	RainMan
ESL Qualifier #3	2012-04-29	Harstem	uThermal
ESL Qualifier #4	2012-05-02	WiseEye	NOLot

Participants

Protoss (4)	Terran (2)	Zerg (2)
Grubby	PoYo	Ret
Harstem	WiseEye	RainMan
uThermal
NOLot

Results

Quarterfinals

  Grubby

2

  NOLot

0

  Harstem

0

  Ret

2

  RainMan

0

  uThermal

2

  WiseEye

0

  PoYo

2

Semifinals

  Grubby

2

  Ret

1

  uThermal

2

  PoYo

1

Winners' Finals

  Grubby

2

Grubby 

 uThermal

uThermal switched from Protoss to Terran during the tournament.

  uThermal

0

Losers' Round 1

  Harstem

2

  NOLot

1

  WiseEye

0

  RainMan

2

Losers' Round 2

  PoYo

1

  Harstem

2

  Ret

2

  RainMan

0

Losers' Round 3

  Harstem

0

  Ret

2

Losers' Finals

  uThermal

1

uThermal 

 Ret

uThermal switched from Protoss to Terran during the tournament.

  Ret

2

Grand Finals

  Grubby

2

  Ret

0

Racial Distribution

	Protoss	Terran	Zerg
Round of 8	4 2 2
Round of 6	3 1 2
Round of 4	2 1 1
Round of 3	1 1 1
Grand Finals	1 1
Winner	1

External links

• Official Website
• Official Bracket
• Announcement on TL.net
• Of Turtles and Coincidences – Recap by JOJOsc2